Vincent Starrett Poems

Vincent StarrettVincent Starrett (October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974) was an American writer and
newspaperman.
Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett was born on October 26, 1886 above his
grandfather's bookshop in Toronto. His father moved the family to Chicago in the
late 1890s where Starrett attended John Marshall High School. Starrett landed a
job as a cub reporter with the Chicago Inter-Ocean in 1905. When that paper
folded, two years later, he began working for the Chicago Daily News as a crime
reporter, a feature writer and finally a war correspondent in Mexico from 1914
to 1915. Starrett turned to writing mystery and supernatural fiction for the
pulp magazines during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1920, he wrote a Sherlock Holmes
pastiche entitled The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet . This story involved the
detective with a missing 1604 edition of Shakespeare's play, which included an
inscription by the playwright. Starrett's most famous work, The Private Life
of Sherlock Holmes, was published in 1933. He retired from The Chicago Tribune
in 1965 where he wrote a book column for 20 years. Starett was one of the
founders of the Chicago chapter of the Baker Street Irregulars.